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No, but on the other hand, it doesn't cost much to update the README and officially orphan the project and/or leave feedback to indicate that the project is up
by mercurial 12y ago
No, but on the other hand, it doesn't cost much to update the README and officially orphan the project and/or leave feedback to indicate that the project is up for adoption, as a courtesy to people who have spent time improving your work.
- irq-1 12y agoGithub should have more project meta-data, rather than sifting through the README. For example, Production Status: experimental / alpha / it's complicated / production / paid support. Pull request status, standards, response time-frame and response time-frame history would be nice. Canonical URL could become a cross-VCS hosting standard that fixes the annoying "this project has moved" messages. Simple configurations could change meta-data based on activity over time, or voting, or (?). Default settings like "Mark this repo Abandoned after 3 months without commits" would cleanup confusion for most small projects.
- mercurial 12y agoAgreed, a "health status" for projects would be very beneficial, and probably not that hard to implement.
- djur 12y agoSourceforge has that, because beyond being a collaboration platform it also had goals of being a software directory and distribution site. Github seems to carefully avoid picking up features that position it as a directory or distributor, though.